Drawing on their own lives as readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today's rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and process of reading.

Dorothy Barnhouse has built her professional life around her love of reading and writing. A freelance editor and writer for many years, she began teaching through a fellowship at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She is currently a literacy consultant working in elementary, middle, and high schools in New York City and across the country. Dorothy also teaches graduate and undergraduate writing workshops and has received several grants for her writing. Including one from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Vicki Vinton is a literacy consultant who works in the New York City public schools and for schools districts around the country. She co-wrote The Power of Grammar (2005) with Mary, Ehrenworth, and Linder her full name Victoria Vinton is the author of The Jungle Law which People magazine called a "Iyrical, elegant first novel." In addition to her writing and consultant work, she has taught at Queens College/CUNY, the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and at workshop conference and institute settings nationwide. Follow her blog at tomakeaprairie.wordpress.com.